Re: File permitions

im definitely not a guru, but perhaps this might help http://www.php.net/manual/en/html/function.chmod.html http://www.php.net/manual/en/html/function.chown.html those are the doc pages on usage of similar process for setting permissions (i believe) GL -- ----------------------------------------------------- Click here for Free Video!! http://www.gohip.com/free_video/ <recognize@lusoweb.pt> wrote in message news:1001286327.3bae6ab76c798@lusomail.lusoweb.pt... > Maybe I wasn't clear in my previous message: > What I want to do is: when you fill the form, record it > to a file without 666 permitions. I mean: I don't want > to have the file "opened" to everybody. In Perl it was > possible (because it uses directly "system" user, which > is similar to "root"), I want to make it possible using > PHP. E.G.: The PHP-script receives the form, makes an > internal authentication and creates or writes the file > with 600 permitions. > > Thank you, > > Manuel Silva > > > Quoting Alexander Skwar <ASkwar@DigitalProjects.com>: > > > So sprach »recognize@lusoweb.pt« am > > 2001-09-23 um 19:08:20 +0100 : > > > Is there any possibility to write to files as > > "httpd" > > > or "system" (which can write to files even > > with "000" > > > permitions)? > > > > With 000 permissions? Is "system" an alias for > > root? If not, then it's > > not possible. > > > > But normally the files should only need access > > for the group running the > > webserver process. Here at home, it's > > apache/apache. > > > > Alexander Skwar > > -- > > How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) > > http://quote.6x.to (english) > > Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | > > http://www.iso-top.de > > iso-top.de - Die günstige Art an Linux > > Distributionen zu kommen > > Uptime: 8 hours 49 minutes > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > php-general-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > > > > ----------------------------- > Visite http://www.lusoweb.pt